A-The beer pours coffee-black with brown highlights if you shine a light in there. There was a 1.5 finger, dirty-brown head that recedes slowly leaving a thick ring around the edge of the glass.

S-Cocoa and, uh, chocolate, obviously. Milk chocolate to light-dark chocolate to be exact. The smell is pretty concentrated on those flavors, but I got a whiff of roasted malts and oats.

T-Mostly follows the chocolatey smell, but a bit more bitter. I got a bit of smoke, which makes the chocolate notes almost like semi-sweet chocolate. There was a bit of nutty flavor on the finish.

M-The beer leans toward heavy, but not nearly as oily or heavy as an RIS.

O-As advertised, this is a chocolate stout, and a good one at that. Is this the best chocolate stout out there? No, but if you want to sip on a dessert beer that won't bowl you over with ABV, this is a nice choice in complexity and taste.

Pours a dark chocolate brown with a finger of tan head. The nose is distinctly chocolate. The chocolate flavor is certainly present upfront, but the roast profile is not quite up to the standards of top tier stouts. The finish has a definite cocoa bitterness that makes for a nice ending to a solid offering.

Too often I find that brewers like to hype their "chocolate" beers, but rarely do they deliver on actual chocolate flavor. This offering is one of the few chocolate beers that can be marked "as advertised."

This Oregon made stout is the wow of stout beers. I don't know if this is my favorite stout stout, but damn...it knocks me out. This is a contender for first prize of stouts with especially another Oregon stout - Obsidian!

Let's get to the review. Appearance? Black black like purple black with a creamy tan head that won't quit. 5.0.

The aroma of chocolate fills your senses so much that I had to give it a 5.0 too just for its sheer strength.

The taste is a strong stout melded with chocolate. Lotsa chocolate. The chocolate shows up on the first taste. Stronger chocolate flavor than even Young's Double chocolate. I don't know if this is my favorite stout. I don't know if I want this much chocolate, but I rated it at a 4.5 just to give it the proper props that are due to the tremendous effort by the makers of this beer. Hoo-wah.

Complement this beer with a silent watching of Foxxy Brown movie while listening to Grace Jones singing La Vie en Rose and more of her techno punky miracles.

Appearance: Very viscous pour produced a three finger light brown head atop an opaque black body. Laces well.

Aroma: Like an Oatmeal Stout with that added chocolate factor. Sweet and slightly roasty notes.

Taste: Interestingly enough the biggest flavor I get here is a smoky and similar to tobacco. It's not a bad thing per say, just not what I was expecting. I think what I'm tasting is a combination of dark roasted chocolate and the hops. At 69 IBUs the beer leaves a distinct, but by no means overwhelming, bitterness in the finish. As I get further into the beer, that tobacco flavor is fading and the chocolate profile is emerging. 6% ABV actually seems low for how thick and robust this beer drinks.

Mouthfeel: Surprisingly thick, between medium and full bodied. Average drinkability and a little too much carbonation for the style.

Final Thoughts: Although the flavor profile on this one was not quite what I was expecting, it's a unique change of pace from the usual Chocolate Stout. Would I drink it again? Probably not, an interesting beer but not one I feel the need to revisit.

poured this from a bomber into a "drink vermont beer" pint glass. had a nice tan 2 finger head that receded to about a quarter inch. not very aromatic, but black as night. feel is good, medium bodied for a stout in my opinion. the taste is what really gets me. it tastes like a chocolate milk with far more chocolate than necessary. its fantastic. but really all chocolate and quite delicious definitely a chocoholics dream.